This is an unsparing dissection of the current education system by someone who has managed to wade through it comparatively unscathed. Unbroken and unshaken by a system that believes largely in the statusquo writer Sid Sanghvi lays bare the truths about learning and the paradoxes in the system of education. He challenges ageold notions about how information is imparted and argues that learning without any understanding of how to learn is the root of the problem. The book takes a dispassionate look at the rights and wrongs perpetuated by the education system both knowingly and unknowingly. There was a time when teachers kept a record of all the educating they had done 911527 blows with a rod 124010 blows with a cane 20989 taps with a ruler 136715 blows with the hand 10235 blows to the mouth 7905 boxes on the ear and 1118800 blows on the head wrote one teacher in his personal diary.